Description

Trailer for Ballerina.

Inspired by world-famous Swedish ballerina Elsa Marianne von Rosens autobiography, filmmaker Maja Friis uses beautifully choreographed contemporary dance scenes to reveal the dancers impossible balancing act between consuming human love and an all-encompassing artistic passion. Connecting unique archival material and new recordings of the now 89-year-old legend, the film portrays dance as a lover, a partner, a support and a shadow. Ballerina is an essential artists portrait that speaks to and for itself, using movement as an expression of narrative. Von Rosens career becomes the choreography, her love life a body of work, and the body itself its storyteller. Brilliantly assured, this poetic film gives insight into von Rosens deeply passionate relationship with dancing as a way of life and a way of being. Its a real life pas de deux that both breaks the heart and makes it beat faster.